Tag: Statistics

  • Stupid Judges?

    Over the last few months the tri­al of Casey Antho­ny was a great demon­stra­tion of how not to pros­e­cute a case. You saw evi­dence sub­mit­ted that was not even sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly sound, (an elec­tron­ic snif­fer gad­get) which is based on some pret­ty shaky, sci­en­tif­ic ground, it has been used effec­tive­ly for detect­ing crim­i­nal actions, like the…

  • gallop poll garbage

    can we trust the polls? Are they real? is the media making up lies to help support a candidate? Can michele bach­mann actu­al­ly win or is this an attempt of the lame stream media to influ­ence an elec­tion in an unfair way? Is there a real basis of this poll? When you look at sta­tis­tics,…